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The truth about happiness

what do we really mean when we say someone is happy

By alain JuniorPublished 3 years ago 6 min read
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One percent of people or less actually find true long-term happiness during their lifetime. Meaning that the remaining ninety nine percent of people are seeking short-term feeling of pleasure discard as happiness. But deep down inside, they know that they aren’t truly happy. And if you ask them why they are unhappy if they are been honest, they will tell you it has all to do with their financial situation. The meaning of motivation defers greatly from that of inspiration.

The absolute first thing to do is to dissolve your own deceit, expectation and reason why you think you are entitled to anything. Because the things that lead us to long-term true happiness are the ones that requires the most perseverance, the most tolerance and time to build. While short-term feeling of comfort are much easier to acquire. However, human beings are naturally design to be happier and healthier living a long-term authentic life . And thus transfigure into and unnatural state when living a life of constantly seeking of short-term stimulus.

And a long term happy and authentic life can truly be achieved if it is rooted around your highest natural priority. And the more you decent the list of your natural priorities, your existence becomes more inauthentic, less life fulfilling, and you develop an unnatural state and become less likely to find true happiness and more likely to seek short-term feelings of pleasure and will be less satisfied with who you are and start thinking that there is something wrong with you.

Well, first you want to identify what it is that you have ever done that has been a value to other and how it has served other and at the same time been something meaningful to you. Then you want to really thing about what it is that you are really going to do because you are not going to get financially free unless you serve others. You need to have a value of putting other’s needs and interest first. Because if you don’t have a value of putting others first then you can forget about ever been financially free.

Because the money flows through the economy from those who provide the least value to those who provide the most value. So, you need to have a value on serving people first and putting their need first. You need to have the habit of providing more than taking. You need to be able to enable a sense of self-actualization because you are formed to be able to provide something of value to others that serves them in a positive way and at the same time is also valuable and self-satisfying to you.

The truth is that everything in nature has a natural priority a natural purpose. Something of exclusive value that only it can provide. Whenever it is been used for its higher value, it becomes the most effective thing that it can ever be. So, all the elements and creatures we see around us each has a natural value. Metal is used as a means of conducting electricity and that it is natural purpose. That is the thing it is most effective and most valuable for. And that is an exclusive natural value and importance which only metal is capable of.

Water is the main source of life we know of. and without it there could not be any life existing on our planet. So, the ability to provide life, vegetation, greenery and just the opportunity for life to emerge in general, is something only water is capable of providing. therefore, it is an exclusive value to water. And the same can be said for human they are created with the unique capacity to reason to become innovative thus it is their natural purpose.

Whenever any element in existence is living by its highest natural priority, which is what the ancient Greeks called the telos natural purpose of everything in existence which can be identified by observing the character of the very same thing. And by observing its character, we can see what it is that the element only is capable of doing. And that could be that element’s self-actualization. That highest priority and capacity is the most powerful and most effective thing it can do and that is its purpose.

And it is only by performing that natural purpose, that it can be at is best, its most important and at is most self-valued. So, when including humans in this scheme, we discover that they are created with the unique and exclusive capacity to be highly creative and innovative. And capable of solving the most complex issues and problems around them and that it their purpose. That is what their natural purpose is. Meaning that they only way they could really develop a sense of self-actualization or a sense of meaning and self-value and therefore become truly happy, if is they performed what it is that only they can do best.

So, for example if you are naturally talented in a specific field, and you set goals in that specific field and inspire yourself to accomplish those goal in that field, then you become the most effective person that you can be. This is when you are the most discipline, the most organized, the most settles, the most powerful and the most confident. This is when you discover your true capacity. This is when you are willing to be the most courageous and the most persevering. And the reason why is because when setting goals that are aligned with your highest natural capacity and purpose, you become inspired and most dedicated to have something that you can’t wait to get up in the morning and do.

Because our true capacity and purpose manifest itself naturally. It comes from within. Because there are two personas. The one we are and the one we can be. The one we are is our normal nature the pursuit of emotion, feeling and comfort the constant seeking of pleasure and satisfying oneself ego. This is the person that led us to make decision based on feeling and emotion rather than on fact and on reality.

Then there is the one we can be. Which is when we are the most hardworking. This is when we are the most perseverance when going though struggle. This is when we are willingly endure the hardship and pain it requires to reach where it is that we want to reach. Now our normal being is the one of everyday whereas the being we can potentially be is the hardest to become.

The one it require to reach where we what to be. The one it takes to be self-actualized. And it is with that persona, that we can achieve true happiness. Because we can only become happy if we are satisfied with what we are doing. And true satisfaction is truly reached when what we are doing what is aligned with our natural purpose and capacity. And it is what inspire use to go through all means of challenges to reach out goal. So the key is to make sure that whatever it is that you are doing is based on your highest natural purpose. To make sure that you are capable of staying perseverance or you will not build momentum toward accomplishing your goals.

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